More sulking.

Mutterings continued.

Parked poor superannuated Freddie out in the street last night in preparation for Manfred taking over the car port. Caught the bus to work, was given a lift to the Credit Union, spent ages signing I don't know how many bits of paper, caught a cab to Centre Ford to be told that the car wasn't ready. Seems the cleaner had discovered a scratch on Manfred's bum and he's in getting it fixed. Manfred, not the cleaner.

*sulk*

They did give me a loaner, which is a new Ford Focus, bigger than the Fiesta and about $5000 dearer. It doesn't have power windows, however. The dealer who sold me the car kept apologising and said he would buy me a present to try to make it up to me. We'll see.

I took Freddie out to Dad tonight and caught the train and bus home. It's been a real day for public transport. I had a lovely bus driver on the way home - there were a couple of young Japanese girls on board and he was very worried that they didn't know where they were going. He got out of his seat at one point to ask them if they had an address. Seems they were ok; another Japanese woman who was sitting in the back of the bus came up and sorted things out.

As I was getting off, he explained that he once got caught in Paris and couldn't find anyone who spoke English, so he knew how intimidating it could be.

Parcel on the doorstep when I got home - the SE of LOTR:RotK has arrived.

I saw the first episode of a great looking series on the ABC last night - Carnivale. From the IMBD (SPOILER ALERT!!): "1934, America. The Dustbowl. A fugitive named Ben Hawkins finds refuge within a traveling carnival comprised of a tarot card reader and her catatonic/telekinetic mother, a blind mentalist, a bearded lady, and conjoined twins, amongst others. The carnival is owned by the mysterious and unseen Management, who has designs on the young Hawkins, for the boy is concealing an untapped gift: he can heal the lame and raise the dead--at a price. Ben also finds himself disturbed by cryptic and prophetic dreams, which he shares with a Methodist preacher in California, Brother Justin Crowe. Brother Justin, convinced he is following God's will, has begun to practice his own extraordinary talents, although the preacher's plans increasingly lead to disturbing and tragic consequences. In this "last great age of magic," Ben Hawkins and Justin Crowe are moving toward a great conflict between Good and Evil, although it not yet clear on which sides these men will stand."

Harper healed a lame little girl who lived on a farm; the following scene showed her running towards her house and all the crops in fields dying and turning black as she ran past.